In presidential campaign news, former Utah governor Jon Huntsman accused some of his Republican rivals of being too extreme. Huntsman criticized Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s skepticism about global warming and evolution.

Jon Huntsman: “The minute that the Republican Party becomes the party—the anti-science party, we have a huge problem. We lose a whole lot of people that would otherwise allow us to win the election in 2012. When we take a position that isn’t willing to embrace evolution, when we take a position that basically runs counter to what 98 of 100 climate scientists have said, what the National Academy of Science—Sciences has said about what is causing climate change and man’s contribution to it, I think we find ourselves on the wrong side of science, and therefore, in a losing position.”